For anyone who hasn't heard the term, a 'hot mic' moment is when someone is done speaking on a microphone, but them makes an offhanded comment to themselves or someone, intended to be private, that is picked up by the mic and heard by everyone
For anyone who hasn't heard the term, a 'hot mic' moment is when someone is done speaking on a microphone, but them makes an offhanded comment to themselves or someone, intended to be private, that is picked up by the mic and heard by everyone
Gordon Brown calling Gillian Duffy a 'bigoted woman' might be up there. Not sure how big a difference it ultimately made to the 2010 election in the UK, but was definitely a flash point and you could see it as typifying a lot of the dynamics of the next 10 years